How to Check If AI Recommends Your Brand (Free Chrome Extension)

Your customers are asking ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity for recommendations before they ever open Google. When they ask "what's the best tool for X," an AI answers with a short list of names. Your brand is either on that list or it isn't — and most teams have no idea which.

The good news: you can check it in about ten seconds, for free, on any website. This guide shows you exactly how, what the number means, and what to do if your score is low.

The short answer

To check whether AI recommends your brand, run your domain through an AI visibility checker. The fastest way is the free AEO Quick Check Chrome extension: click the toolbar icon on any website and you get that brand a 0–100 AI visibility score in one click — no signup, no API key, no credit card.¹ The score is powered by Google Gemini, and it shows the top buyer-intent prompts where the brand already appears.

That's the 10-second version. The rest of this post explains what the score measures, how to read it, and how to raise it.

Why you can't see this in Google Analytics

Traditional analytics and rank trackers were built for the click. They tell you where you rank on a search engine results page and how many people clicked through. But AI assistants don't send a ranked list of ten blue links — they synthesise one answer, and whether your brand is named in it is binary.²

So a visitor who asked ChatGPT "best CRM for a small SaaS," saw your competitor recommended, and clicked through never shows up as a missed opportunity in your dashboard. You simply never existed for that buyer. This is the gap AEO — Answer Engine Optimization exists to close, and it's why SEO and AEO are now two different jobs.

What "AI visibility" actually measures

An AI visibility score answers a simple question: when buyers ask AI about your category, how often does your brand come up?

Here's how the score is built:

1. We generate a set of unbranded, buyer-intent prompts for the brand's category — the real questions a customer would ask (e.g. "best payment gateway for a new e-commerce business"), not "tell me about [Brand]."
2. We ask the AI engine those prompts and check whether it naturally recommends the brand.
3. The AI Presence score is the share of prompts where the brand surfaces, on a 0–100 scale.³

A score of 80+ means AI reliably puts you in the consideration set. A score under 40 means you're mostly invisible at the exact moment buyers are choosing.

How to check your brand's AI visibility in one click

Step 1 — Install the extension

Add AEO Quick Check from the Chrome Web Store and pin it to your toolbar (the puzzle-piece menu → pin). It's free and asks only for activeTab + storage permissions — it reads the domain of your current tab only when you click it, and never touches your other tabs.

Step 2 — Open any website

Your own domain, a competitor, a prospect, or a client site. It works on any public site.

Step 3 — Click the icon and read the score

You get an instant 0–100 AI visibility score for that brand, plus the top buyer-intent prompts where it shows up and how it ranks on each. If the site hasn't been scanned before, one click runs a free scan.

Step 4 — Check your competitors

This is where it gets useful. Run the same check on the two or three rivals AI keeps recommending instead of you. The gap between your score and theirs is usually the wake-up call — and it tells you exactly which prompts to go win.

What the free check shows vs the full picture

Be clear about scope so you read the number correctly. The free extension gives you one overall score, powered by Google Gemini — enough to find out whether you have a problem. Seeing how each AI engine treats you, and tracking it over time, is the paid FixAEO dashboard.

	Free Chrome extension	FixAEO dashboard
Score	One overall AI visibility score (Google Gemini)	Per-engine scores across all 8 AI engines
Engines	—	ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, Copilot, AI Overviews
Tracking	On-demand, one click	Daily, with trend charts
Extras	Top prompts where you appear	Competitor leaderboards, the sources AI cites, alerts, exports
Cost	Free, no signup	Paid

The extension is the free way to answer "do I have a problem?" The dashboard answers "where, on which engine, and what's changing?"

What to do if your AI visibility score is low

A low score is fixable. The signals AI engines weight are different from classic SEO — structured data and authoritative citations matter far more than raw backlinks.⁴ If your number is low, start here:

• Unblock the AI crawlers. Check robots.txt isn't blocking GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, or PerplexityBot — a leftover from 2023 makes you invisible by default.
• Publish an llms.txt file. A five-minute Markdown manifest that tells AI engines what your business is and where the key pages are. Follow the step-by-step llms.txt guide.
• Write answer-shaped content. Turn product-marketing headlines into the actual questions buyers ask, and add FAQPage schema so assistants can lift the answers verbatim.
• Earn authoritative citations. A single mention on Wikipedia or a respected industry publication can outweigh a thousand backlinks for AI recommendation.
• Re-check weekly. AI answers shift constantly, so measure AI visibility on a cadence, not once. For the deeper reasons your brand might be missing, see why ChatGPT doesn't recommend your brand.

FAQ

Is the AI visibility checker free?

Yes. The AEO Quick Check extension is free with no signup and no credit card. Looking up a brand that's already been scanned is instant and unlimited; if a site hasn't been scanned yet, you can run a free scan (one anonymous scan per day, the same flow the FixAEO homepage uses).

Which AI engines does the extension check?

The free one-click check is powered by Google Gemini and shows a single overall score — it does not break the score down by engine. The full view across all 8 engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews) lives in the paid FixAEO dashboard.

How is the AI visibility score calculated?

We generate unbranded, buyer-intent prompts for the brand's category and check whether the AI naturally recommends it. The score is the share of those prompts where the brand surfaces, on a 0–100 scale. Full details are on the methodology page.

What data does the extension collect?

Only the root domain of your current tab, and only at the moment you click the icon. That domain is sent to FixAEO to look up the score. Your last five checks are stored locally on your device and never transmitted — no tracking, no content scripts, no background activity.

Can I check my competitors' AI visibility?

Yes. It works on any public website, with no per-seat license. Agencies use it to spot-check a client's or prospect's AI visibility on the spot, right before a call.

Does AI visibility actually affect sales?

Increasingly, yes. As buyers shift from scrolling search results to asking an assistant for a recommendation, being named in that answer becomes a direct acquisition channel — one that classic SEO tools can't measure. You can translate a score change into expected pipeline with the AEO ROI calculator.

In one paragraph

AI assistants recommend brands to buyers every day, and most teams can't see whether they're in those answers. An AI visibility score fixes that: it measures how often your brand surfaces when people ask AI about your category. The fastest way to check is the free AEO Quick Check Chrome extension — one click on any site gives you a 0–100 score powered by Gemini, plus the prompts where you show up. Check your own site, then your competitors, and the gap will tell you exactly where to focus. Want the full picture across all eight AI engines, tracked daily? Run a free FixAEO scan to get started — no signup, about 30 seconds.

Footnotes

1. AEO Quick Check on the Chrome Web Store. View the listing. ↩

2. OpenAI: Introducing ChatGPT search. Read the announcement. ↩

3. FixAEO: How we score AI visibility. Read the methodology. ↩

4. Google Search Central: AI features and your website. Read the AI features guidance. ↩